Shinnosuke Abe stood at the plate with two outs and down to his final strike with his team losing in the eighth inning.
Then the Yomiuri Giants captain did what he almost always does: he came through with the big hit.
Abe connected on a come-from-behind, three-run home run, and the Giants rallied past the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters to earn a 4-2 win in front of a crowd of 45,607 on Thursday at Tokyo Dome.